Requiem Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson

Requiem

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Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me;
'Here he lies where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.'

Requiem
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Don Rood 29 May 2016

My mother quoted this poem frequently when I was growing up. I just read it to her, now in her final hours of hospice care

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Glenys 16 September 2018

Special connection

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Matthew Cushing 01 March 2006

Simple, elegant, heart-warming

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Fabrizio Frosini 14 September 2015

Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. I've always loved these 3 lines..

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john manoah 17 April 2018

I always felt that Bob could have sexed up the last line of his requiem by omitting 'the' before 'hunter, ie: .....'And hunter home from the hill'....

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Terence Craddock 14 January 2024

I wrote the poem 'Hunting A Snack: Snack Time', with the first line of my poem as a quotation tribute, to the last line of the poem 'Requiem', by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Ken W. 21 August 2022

The poem is written on the side of his tomb. The number of times as a kid I straddle RLS tomb and sat in solitude looking down Mt. Vaea to Apia, across the lagoon, over the reef and out into the mighty Pacific Ocean.

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david andrews 31 October 2021

so much in so few words, ... and you got to be 60 or 70 years old to appreciate it

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Cindy 29 June 2019

Home From The HIll with Robert Mitchum. Great movie.

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Adeeb Alfateh 30 May 2019

great 10++++++++++++++//

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